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John Challis, who is a first-rate harpsichordist himself, was born in Ypsilanti 36 years ago, the son of a jeweler and watchmaker. While at Michigan State Normal College (where he studied piano and organ), he heard his first clavichord, decided to make one. His handiwork was so successful that he went to England to study ancient instruments with Arnold Dolmetsch...
Besides its music, "The Student Prince" has been noted for its none too subtle, but clean, comedy. Somebody has tampered with Miss Donnelly's handiwork, however, and such remarks to the valet's valet as "You 4-F" and by him as "Okay, toots, let's pitch," while all right in a modern show, spoil the comedy of the second and the delicate balance Miss Donnely has established between out-and-out slipstick and straight humor...
Bernie Baruch ran the famed War Industries Board in World War I, showed such a grasp of total war that the German military men later wrote of his handiwork in awe. In World War II, from his favorite bench in Lafayette Park across from the White House, he has been an informal adviser to Franklin Roosevelt and many members of the war cabinet. But not until this week-except for his brief tour of duty investigating the 1942 rubber scandal-did Bernie Baruch lose his unofficial status. He will still serve without pay or title...
...victory, and certainly the most encouraging for the future of the United Nations, was the unity of all arms, of all nations, of all commanders, of all units participating on the Allied side. This unity had to be achieved after some initial difficulties, and it was largely the handiwork of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. As commander of the whole Allied effort, he has kept himself rigidly out of the limelight, has exercised the greatest possible tact, and has contributed many ideas (the forced march of U.S. troops from El Guettar to the extreme north was an Eisenhower conception...
...mansion in Boston's Back Bay last week died Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 86. "Harvard College, as it stands today, is to a large extent his handiwork," said his successor, Dr. James Bryant Conant. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, for 24 years Harvard's president, himself largely represented what both admirers and detractors meant when they spoke of Harvard, Boston, and the New England cultural tradition...